There Was a Country: A Memoir by Chinua Achebe

There Was a Country: A Memoir

Chinua Achebe

333 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir politics emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart--a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil warFor more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the ...

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informative 78%
reflective 78%
challenging 47%
emotional 47%
sad 47%
dark 34%
inspiring 34%
tense 26%
hopeful 17%
mysterious 8%
adventurous 4%

Pace

medium 61%
slow 28%
fast 9%

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